West Nile Virus Technical Advisory Committee Meeting
December 11, 2013
Minutes
Members in attendance: Lars Eisen, Adrienne LeBailly, Eric Levine, Greg McMaster, Chet Moore, Roger
Nasci, Liz Pruessner, Meghan Williams (recommended member)
Staff in attendance: Timothy Allen, Mike Calhoon, Matt Parker, Shannon Schultze, Dan Weinheimer,
Pam Weir, Jessica Schurich
Guests: Rich Fisher
Updates
Next Council Work Session on WNV will be rescheduled from March 11, most likely will take
place on March 18.
Committee Operating Agreements
5 minutes of public comment at the beginning of each meeting will be added to future agendas
TAC meeting minutes will be approved each subsequent meeting and posted publicly on the
WNV webpage (www.fcgov.com/westnile) along with all agendas and agenda materials
Names of TAC members will be posted to the WNV webpage
Meetings will occur from 4-5:30pm, four additional meetings have been scheduled: 1/8/14,
1/22/14, 2/12/14, 2/26/14
Staff will look to create a subscription service to provide updates and information to interested
community members
City Council Direction
Staff discussed the three principal directions from the City Council work session
o Increase community representation on the TAC
 Meghan Williams is a new member representing urban agriculture
 Staff is working to identify a new member to represent pesticide sensitive
population
o Create a comprehensive document explaining West Nile virus program
o Examine the City’s program response guidelines (operational practices) and recommend
revisions to City Council
TAC Work Items
Holistic examination of the City’s response program
Examine the role of adulticide in City’s response to West Nile virus
Determine efficacy of past adulticiding applications
Seek data from similar communities to compare outcomes
Consider program steps to mitigate the need for adulticiding
Proposed Ideas
Have advisory panel members at the TAC meetings or hold a meeting in Spring between TAC
and advisory panel
Increase communication between the TAC and advisory panel
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Shift the trapping season a few weeks later or, depending on budget , expand it
Expand larval treatment and source reduction program
Utilize weather information in larval treatment program
Compare data from weather stations closest to each trap with the activity of that trap
Reconsider indicators used to make decisions about response—human cases of WNV are a
lagging indicator
Presentations
Jessica Schurich with Colorado Mosquito Control (CMC) presented a summary of the 2013
season
o Highlights included details of the City’s trapping network and testing regime
Dr. Chet Moore presented some of the health findings from the 2013 season
Future Meetings
Conduct detailed analysis and discussion of the data from the past season
Critically examine conclusions and the indicators used
Operations: trigger points, role of the advisory panel, expansion of larval program
Community involvement
3 key questions:
o Did adulticiding reduce the risk of WNV transmission in the community?
o Are there alternatives to adulticiding that could have similar outcomes?
o Are the thresholds set correctly for responding to an elevated risk of WNV for the
community?
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